Sentences with phrase «from minimum wage jobs»

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

«I remember coming here in» 88,» 89, and saving all my money from my minimum wage job for July.

To not risk the chances of getting a professional federal job because I was afraid of being fired from a minimum wage job doesn't seem worth risking my health in retrospect.

Not exact matches

In this case, the American Enterprise Institute took some restaurant industry employment data for Seattle from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and blamed a higher minimum wage for the worst decline in restaurant jobs since the Great Recession.

As PookleBlinky also points out, citing research from The New York Times, minimum wage earners aren't kids working summer jobs anymore.

Should we worry about any side effects from a $ 14 / hour minimum wage, including possible job loss?

While there have been studies, such as the Card and Krueger study referenced by the CUPE report that show little or no job loss from a higher minimum wage, other studies have found instances where raising the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment.

What Fraser hears over and over again from Feeding America's food banks is that while more people are working again, «those numbers disguise the fact that so many of these jobs are paying minimum wage or slightly above,» he said.

I am now employed from home and earning more than I was in my minimum - wage retail job.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

You also must be the guy from high school that wanted to lock in his minimum wage job, because you know... college is really just a big, risky «what if» proposition.

But Cuomo, who disagreed that a minimum wage increase was a «job killer» seemed to adopt some of the argument from Silver, who has said an increase can spur the economy.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

The Minimum Wage Enforcement and Outreach Unit will have members from the Labor Department and three other state agencies and its job will be to both educate businesses about the new wage and crack down on violators, Gov. Cuomo said MonWage Enforcement and Outreach Unit will have members from the Labor Department and three other state agencies and its job will be to both educate businesses about the new wage and crack down on violators, Gov. Cuomo said Monwage and crack down on violators, Gov. Cuomo said Monday.

Hawkins and Jones call their platform a Green New Deal for New York, which features public jobs for the unemployed, a $ 15 minimum wage, single payer health care, and fully funded public education from universal pre-K to tuition - free CUNY and SUNY.

Mauro's leadership at FPI since 1993 has been essential to its development as a credible and effective advocacy organization that helps to shape the debate over key economic and fiscal issues in ways that ensure a voice for working people — from middle income homeowners struggling with high property tax bills to those families whose breadwinners toil in minimum wage jobs to the involuntarily unemployed.

«George Amedore has blocked raising the minimum wage, led the charge against fair pay for women and supported corporations that outsource jobs from our community.

Some suggested minimum wage was a factor in Verizon's decision to relocate jobs from two call centers in New York, but a representative from Verizon said the state's wage was not a factor in the move.

Lawmakers plan on leaving for the summer on June 21st, but they continue to be gridlocked on the issues of raising the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 8.50 an hour, and offering tax breaks to small businesses as an incentive to create more jobs.

Mr. Hawkins visited Times offices recently, making the drive from Syracuse in the Hyundai Accent that doubles as his campaign office, and spoke about his «Green New Deal» for New York, which would raise the minimum wage in the state to $ 15 an hour, establish a publicly funded single - payer health care program and provide public works jobs for the unemployed.

«We are campaigning for a Green New Deal for New York, including full employment through public jobs for the unemployed, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, single - payer health care, fully funded public schools from pre-K through college, affordable housing and expanded mass transit,» Hawkins said.

In advance of Wednesday's budget release, Cuomo's staff released the highlights of an anti-poverty plan that includes increasing the minimum wage from $ 8.75 an hour to $ 10.50 an hour, more funding for an urban youth jobs program and investing millions in housing, homelessness services and emergency food.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

Cuomo faces opposition on raising the minimum wage from the Senate's Republican majority, which argues that the jump from the current $ 9 wage, which was effective Jan. 1, to $ 15 will result in job losses and worsen New York's image as bad for business operators.

She is for protecting our jobs from being shopped abroad, for quality affordable higher education, a livable minimum wage and healthcare we can trust.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcFrom Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcfrom minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

People from business taking on adult social care (unlikely, minimum wage for this essential job isn't going to attract those with business expertise).

According to the article, the company takes advantage of its warehouse employees by paying them a shocking $ 4US per hour over the current minimum wage; incidentally, Amazon also has a program in place to hire US military veterans upon returning home from war, with a special emphasis on providing jobs for disabled veterans and their spouses.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

We worked minimum wage jobs at fast food chains at 15 hours per week and we ate most of our food from our jobs because we didn't qualify for food stamps as full time college students.

We heard from single moms who were trying to raise kids on minimum - wage jobs.

If it did, everybody with a job could save a whole lot of tax by agreeing to work for the minimum wage and accepting an additional monthly gift from their employer.

Its manifesto promises to «end austerity» and create a million public service jobs paid for by a new «Robin Hood» wealth tax and create a # 10 / hour minimum wage, protect the NHS from privatisation and increase spending on mental health, before it gets round to tackling climate change.

There are many jobs, along with a high turnover rate that fortunately motivates hotels to treat employees well, but those jobs pay the federal minimum wage, offer only seasonal employment, and pull people away from their families in the region's interior.

Employers must meet and implement new requirements regarding increased minimum wage, vacation time / pay, work scheduling rules and various job - protected absences from work for employees.

With the minimum wage rising this month to $ 14, her increased phantom wage from a job she doesn't have means her correspondingly lower loss - of - earnings (LOE) benefits will push her further into poverty.

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Job seekers from all levels, whether they want to earn minimum wage or hundreds of thousands of dollars, are beyond frustrated by the breakdowns in the process.

The homeless, the poor, the working poor — challenges ranging from mental illness and the response (or lack thereof) of our health care system, economic circumstance (the lack of control of the family into which we are born), and economic stagnation (mired in a minimum wage job.

How many careers allow a manager, a mentor, a trainer to guide a new person, frequently middle aged and entering a second or third career, from a minimum wage or no job at all, to earning $ 100,000 a year?

The mills are always either closed or on the verge of closing, so we just come to expect that and most jobs pay minimum wage, which keeps the rent from ever changing much but there are enough of those jobs to keep people employed.